How many times have you experienced low back pain? Does it feel better after treatment but always seems to come back? Have you ever wondered why on earth this low back pain is not going away for good? Did you know? Low back pain affects 80% of the population in one’s lifetime. Low back pain is the 2nd most common reason for medical consultation. The costs for low back pain is over $25 billion dollars a year Most patients with back pain usually recover within 2-4 weeks after the initial pain. This is in large part due to the
Read more →I always believed I was a fairly athletic guy, and still do. I had a successful university football career and ran a pretty good 40 yard dash for the last half of my playing career. The only problem is that I couldn’t jump. I could never break the 26” mark. I figured I fell into the Woody Harrelson category of ‘White Men Can’t Jump’. I did plenty of plyometrics, lifting, running, and playing football. During a game, I felt that I could always fare well in a jump ball situation with most defensive backs, but this was never reflected in
Read more →This past weekend I headed to beautiful Boston to check out Functional Stability Training with Mike Reinold and Eric Cressey. The talk was FANTASTIC and I’d highly recommend attending a future course. Mike and ERIC are true leaders in the field. The following are the 5 major themes that I took away from the course. These themes are no substitute for the course, but they provide some major themes echoed throughout the course. Without question I’m going to miss a bunch of points (this course was jammed packed with training and clinical pearls and great stories to entertain). After covering
Read more →In overhead sports such as tennis, beach volleyball and baseball, shoulder injuries are an occupational hazard. We all watch in awe when Milos Raonic repeatedly sends down lasers well over 200 Km/H, or when Justin Verlander lights up the radar gun by freezing hitters with 100mph fastballs in the 8th and 9th inning. It’s mind blowing watching the best beach volleyball players launch themselves in the air and unleash cannons in excess of 85mph. The ability to do these things largely comes from an ability to generate velocity through the shoulders of these athletes, but over the course of a
Read more →At FITS we’ve been working with several provincial and national sport organizations in achieving some of their injury prevention strategies and athletic development goals. Likewise we’ve been very active with our research, in which we’ve tested over 3,000 athletes across various sports and age levels. Our research is published and investigates how movement dysfunctions are related to musculoskeletal injuries and how we can correct identified movement dysfunctions to prevent injuries. Some common musculoskeletal injuries we’re investigated include: jumper’s Knee (tendinopathies), low back pain, ACL prevention strategies, hip pathologies, and chronic neck and shoulder pain. Recently we’ve teamed up with the
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